Since Common Core doesn’t dictate a set curriculum, it frees educators, as experts, to use their own craft, ... Nicholas Fenik, 5th grade math teacher, Excel Charter School, Brooklyn.

Test your knowledge and see if you can pass a Common Core fifth-grade math test.There are 15 questions in this sample. When you're done, see how well you did! Test your knowledge and see if you ...

Grimmer Elementary 5th-graders (l-r) Nereida Hernandez, 11, Colin Pullen, 10, and Mariel Hernandez, 10, talk about Common Core math. “I wish I knew how to do geometry and distributive properties,” ...

An in-depth discussion of Common Core standards, how to implement them in the classroom and how to evaluate student performance. Divided up by grade level and subject. Aired: 03/06/12 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Jennifer Craig stared at her daughter's fifth-grade math homework. It was a three-digit multiplication problem, and it seemed simple enough. But her 10-year-old was supposed to ...

Cross-grade-level meetings have been helpful for Chris Austin, a 4th and 5th grade math teacher at Rock Hall Elementary in Rock Hall, Md., who attends Ms. Hemstetter’s professional learning ...

Find out by taking the math quiz below: It is made up of real questions from the Common Core PARCC exam that fifth-graders across the nation faced earlier this year.

Common Core math is getting the works from critics: It's too demanding for most kids; holds back the speedy kids; not the same as what parents already know; makes kids cry. It even promotes "fuzzy ...

Greta Anderson, a 5th grade math teacher at New Orleans’ Dibert elementary school, has helped her peers adjust to the new Common Core curricular standards. (Photo: FirstLine schools) Gojak chuckles ...

Teaching elementary school math just got trickier, or at least deeper. The new Common Core State Standards require students to demonstrate a deeper understanding of math concepts, which means teachers ...